Beirut (AFP) – Syria has avoided getting embroiled in the Gaza war, experts said, despite a strike on Iran's Damascus consulate, blamed on Israel, that threatened to ignite a regional conflagration. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to strike a delicate...

The Israeli army on Saturday detained 20 more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.  According to a joint statement issued by the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the new arrests brought the total number of Palestinians detained by...

At least one Lebanese man was killed Saturday in two Israeli airstrikes on the towns of Kafr Shuba and Shebaa in southern Lebanon.  "The Israeli occupation aircraft carried out two raids today at dawn on the towns of Kafr Shuba and Shebaa, which led to the martyrdom of citizen Qasim...

(Beirut) –  Lebanese  authorities have arbitrarily detained, tortured, and forcibly returned Syrians to Syria in recent months, including opposition activists and army defectors, Human Rights Watch said today. Between January and March 2024, Human Rights Watch documented the...